Tuesday, December 29, 2009

You won't read about this in the main stream media. Few will ever connect the dots. IB supporters will rail at TAIB for even making this public. But, facts are facts and you can make of this what you will:

As a teen, Abdulmutallab attended the British International School in Lome, Togo, a Nigerian paper reported. There, he quickly acquired a reputation as a devoted Muslim. "At the secondary school, he was known for preaching about Islam to his schoolmates and he was popularly called 'Alfa,' a local coinage for Islamic scholar," according to The Day.

The British School in Lome, Togo, has been a private IB academy since 1994. IBO's mission statement includes the following: These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

2001: According to Michael Rimmer, his history teacher at the British School, Abdulmutallab is a "very religious" boy who once defends the Taliban during class discussion on the topic.Religiousity aside, Rimmer characterizes Abdulmutallab as a "dream" student: "Very keen, enthusiastic, very bright, very polite."

A polite terrorist. Did the IB education Abdulmultallab received teach him that his defense of the Taliban was "right"? Apparently so.

In 2008, a disturbing trend in the IB authorization process came to light. Two Islamic academies, one in London, one in Fairfax, Virginia, were both authorized as IB World Schools. Both schools are private and run by the Saudi Arabian government.

The King Fahad Academy in London was written up in the UK papers during the time it was pursuing IB authorization. According to the timesonline.co.uk, the school was ordered by a tribunal to award a teacher it had unfairly dismissed £70,000 for making public allegations that the school was engaged in anti-Judeo Christian teaching. Extracts from an Arabic textbook revealed that children were taught to believe that all religions other than Islam were "worthless". The books in question referred to "the repugnant characteristics of Jews" and stated, "Those whom God has cursed and with whom He is angry, He has turned intomonkeys and pigs. They worship Satan."

Apparently, this sort of news didn't enter into or in any way affect the IB team's evaluation process of the school. The above story was published on April 15, 2008, and in June, 2008, the King Fahad Academy became an IB World School. One particularly upset and diligent London parent undertook a letter writingcampaign to obtain an explanation from IBO as to how they could justify authorizing a school where its teachings were so clearly contrary to IB's mission statement. After many detailed e-mails which provided links to the newspaper stories, she finally received a reply from the Director General himself, Jeffrey Beard. In the letter, Mr. Beard stated that the King Fahad Academy, "met and continues to meet all of our standards. The matters you raise in your correspondence was [sic] not in evidence during the authorization visit and appears to be unfounded."

To any rational and right minded thinker, this response from the CEO of an educational company should set off all sorts of alarm bells. Grammatical construct of the response aside, was there anything involved in theauthorization visit besides rubber stamping the authorization? According to Beard, the process is "rigorous". Were these egregious teaching practices and news stories not "in evidence" because the IB turned a blind eye? What kind of standards does IB have if this school met them? During the same two year application period, the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) here in the U.S. was making news of its own. The school had earned the nickname "Terror High". In 2004, the Council on American-Islamic Relations called for first grade textbooks which taught that "any religion other than Islam is false" to be removed. The school's 1999 Valedictorian was arrested in 2005 for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush, and he was just recently sentenced to life in prison. Of course, the sentencing of the former ISA student was never mentioned in the mainstream media. More recently, another ISA student was arrested at a Florida airport for carrying a 7" butcher knife and the Principal was arrested by Fairfax County Police for not reporting the abuse of a little girl and for following Sharia law by turning her back over to her father. World maps throughout the school conspicuously omit the country of Israel. Ninth grade textbooks allegedly contained diagrams of where to properly cut off the hands and feet of a thief. None of these arrests or the general atmosphere at the school seemed to make any difference to IB which authorized the Islamic Saudi Academy as an IB World School in December, 2008.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Black conservative wonders why Asian girl says the smartest one is the Queen of the Asians, but the one the black kids say is the "king" is the one that gets into trouble. Fits into my opinion that the key to doing well in school is to concentrate on doing well in school, not wallowing in ethnic pride / victimhood. Asians also lag on many fronts such as management and popular music, but if you want it, you have put out to get it.

Emergency Responders for Equality
(ERFE), Austin Fire Marshall Don Smith, and Battalion Chief Greg Nye have filed
a formal complaint with the EEOC regarding illegal racial considerations in promotions
in the Austin Fire Department, according to their lawyer, David Rogers of the
Texas Legal Foundation.

The Austin Fire Department is one
of the finest fire organizations in the nation. This did not occur by
happenstance. Approximately one-hundred highly qualified officers ranked
Captain or above, who have spent their careers building this organization, are
the very officers who were not afforded an equal opportunity to compete for
top-level management positions. They were subsequently passed over in order to
accommodate a race-based political agenda. It is both an ethical concern and a safety issue for a
majority of the city’s firefighters.

This case is similar to the New Haven firefighter case
correctly decided by the Supreme Court this summer – this case is a matter of
what is right under the law. Race cannot be used as a basis for making
employment decisions and as Justice Kennedy said in the New Haven case “No
individual should face workplace discrimination based on race”.

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was enacted to
ensure that individuals are not discriminated against because of their race,
color, sex, religion, or national origin.

At the same time Battalion Chief Smith was advised that he
was being named Fire Marshal, he was told that the Fire Marshal position and
responsibilities of that title were being demoted from Assistant Chief in order
to accommodate raced-based promotions.
Chief Nye was also passed aside for these race-based promotions, as were
more than 150 more senior and more qualified individuals. There is very
strong evidence indicating a pattern of behavior from the Austin Fire
Department of promoting based on race at the highest levels of the organization.
Promotions based on race instead of qualifications are hurtful to any
profession. Appointing
junior, under-qualified Lieutenants, who are by the Fire Chief’s own admission
“green”, to top level management positions in a public safety organization, is
hurtful to the firefighters and dangerous to the citizens. Additionally, promoting a city employee
based on race to a position (Assistant Chief of Professional Services), newly
created specifically in order to accommodate this promotion, places a
irresponsible financial burden on the citizens of Austin. These questionable actions have created a severe morale
problem among firefighters which is destroying the very environment which made
this Fire Department exemplary. When citizens receive inferior service in the
emergency management business – lives are at risk. The safety of the citizens
of Austin should not be at the mercy of divisive racial politics.

"Promotions based on race instead of personal
qualification are hurtful to any profession. Under qualified leaders are especially dangerous to a public
safety organization. If citizens
receive inferior service in the emergency management business – lives are at
risk," said Smith’s attorney, David Rogers of the Texas Legal Foundation.

Emergency
Responders for Equality is an organization of firefighters, police
officers, and EMS personnel along with concerned citizens committed to fighting
discrimination, bias, undue political influence and race-based employment
decisions in our critical emergency service agencies. Emergency Responders for
Equality seeks to ensure fairness in initial hiring, promotions and
appointments in our fire, police and EMS departments by elevating
qualifications and merit above divisive racial politics.

Fire
Marshal and Battalion Chief Don Smith has over a quarter-century of experience keeping
Austinites safe from fire and other emergencies. For more than a decade, he has served at the highest levels
of the Austin Fire Department Fire Marshal’s office. Twice now he has been passed over for less-experienced
minority candidates with little or no prior experience in the Fire Marshal’s
office for the position of Assistant Chief in charge of the Fire Marshal’s
office. Battalion Chief Nye joined
the Austin Fire Department in 1980, and has been a Battalion Chief or acting
Division Chief for fifteen years.
Nye most recently served as Chief Arson Investigator, and has been
passed over in favor of less qualified minorities on at least three separate
occasions.

Fire
Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr and City Councilman Martinez have made it clear—racial
diversity at the top ranks of the Austin Fire Department is the most important
thing—and qualification and public safety are second-rate concerns for the
Austin City Government.

For
more information about this lawsuit, visit Emergency Responders for Equality’s
website, ERFE.org.